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Click here for corresponding article: Sean Spicer Just Suggested that Obama used British Intelligence to Spy on Trump. Not So Much.

White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, recently made accusations that former President Obama used GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) British spies to spy on President Trump. The article published by The Washington Post goes into specific detail of the accusation and information that supports that the accusation is wrong.

Who is lying here? The dilemma of deception in this situation is that if Sean Spicer knew that the information he was claiming about President Obama using British intelligence to survey President Trump, Spicer lied as well as whom he had heard it from. If Spicer did not know that the information was false, he would have been under the impression that he was telling the truth by making these claims. If he knew and believed that the accusations were incorrect and had the intention of spreading the lie to the public, he was morally and ethically wrong.

If Spicer did believe that the claims were correct, he made the mistake of simply trusting sources and blurting it into the public’s ear. The statement first came out when Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on Fox News claiming that three intelligence sources told Fox News about what President Obama ‘had done’. Unfortunately, additional information supports that the accusations were false and somewhere, if not everywhere, along the line, lies were told.